Forward Deployed AI Engineer

As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you’ll work directly with enterprise customers to build, operate, and continuously improve production-grade GenAI systems. This is a hands-on, impact-driven role where you’ll design and iterate on end-to-end solutions that blend models, agents, data, and evaluation frameworks into reliable, scalable deployments.

As the first UK hire, you’ll build alongside a world-class engineering and research team deploying frontier AI capabilities and will be enabled to shape the foundation of their UK function and engineering culture; whilst working on systems that move beyond prototypes.

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement compound AI workflows that combine models, retrieval, evaluation, and execution into cohesive production systems.
• Operate on live AI deployments: monitor behaviour, identify failure modes, and iterate continuously to improve performance and reliability.
• Integrate systems into real customer environments; from data platforms and APIs to business applications.
• Collaborate directly with enterprise teams, often in high-visibility projects, explaining technical trade-offs and outcomes with clarity.
• Take ownership of real-world outcomes, ensuring AI systems deliver measurable business value and adapt as client needs evolve.

• 7+ years of hands-on software/AI engineering experience (Python preferred)
• Strong foundation in system design, debugging, testing, and performance optimization.
• Proven experience building AI-driven applications - not just using APIs, but composing prompts, models, agents, and evaluation mechanisms into operational systems.
• Comfortable working in dynamic customer-facing environments and communicating clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Naturally curious about AI and proactive in experimenting with new tools and techniques.
• Willingness to travel occasionally (25-50%).